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Recipients Announced For Delaware Highlights Conservancy Student Scholarships

PA Environment Daily

The Delaware Highlands Conservancy has awarded its “Delaware Highlands Conservancy/Yeaman Scholarship” for $1,175 to Amy Carpenter , a 2021 graduate from Delaware Valley High School, and the “Vanessa Van Gorder Memorial Scholarship” for $1,000 to Ella Clabaugh , a 2021 graduate of Wallenpaupack Area High School.

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Confronting the Effects of Coastal Climate Change

Academy of Natural Sciences

Environmental science major Kris Freyland sees the effects of climate change up close. Drexel environmental science major and co-op student Kris Freyland. The project was one of 10 co-ops funded by the Dean’s Excellence Fund in the College of Arts and Sciences this year, designed to promote student-faculty collaboration.

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The Unexpected Diversity of Philadelphia’s Bees

Academy of Natural Sciences

I am an environmental science senior in the Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science Department at Drexel and work in the Entomology Department at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Tell us about yourself.

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PA Assn. Of Environmental Educators Announce 2024 Award Winners

PA Environment Daily

Acker became fascinated by French Creek as a nontraditional adult student at Allegheny College where she graduated with honors with a BS in Environmental Science. She spent her childhood playing in the creeks and woods of Northeastern Pennsylvania, and this instilled an early passion for nature and conservation education.

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Crafting Scientific Leaders and Community this Summer Through DESLA

Academy of Natural Sciences

Here we learn about climate change, sea rise, forest fires, community science, migration and local biodiversity. “We’ve gathered every summer for the past 10 years to explore the ecology and conservation of this amazing place along the mid-Atlantic coast,” says Ron Smith, director of the DESLA programs.

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On the Wings of Research

Academy of Natural Sciences

“Butterflies are often a first point of introduction for many into nature,” writes Vaughn Shirey, first author of an astounding paper published in the very prestigious science journal, Nature, that presents the largest and most comprehensive global compilation of butterfly trait data to date.

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Highlighting Biodiversity: Finding Frogs in the New Jersey Pine Barrens

Academy of Natural Sciences

The Pine Barrens Ron Smith, an instructor with Drexel University’s Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, and his group of volunteer community scientists were lured deep in into the swampy thicket of Wharton State Forest in the New Jersey Pine Barrens on the search for biological treasure.